Walsh’s court filing states: “Joe’s employment has been terminated through no voluntary act of his own and he is without sufficient income or assets with which to continue to pay his support obligation. Due to a substantial change in circumstances, Joe requests that his child support obligation be terminated based on his present income and circumstances.”

 

A lawyer for Walsh said the word "terminate" was misleading and "modify" would have been more accurate. The end of the filing asks that the court “modify Joe’s child support obligation to a sum equal to 20 percent of his net income until the minor child graduates from high school in 2013.”

Walsh said the filing was routine and said he intends to continue paying child support payments. The ousted congressman insisted he wasn't a "deadbeat dad" throughout his failed re-election campaign last year.